In November 1998, the author arrived in Mascarilla, a small village in Ecuador's predominantly-black Chota Valley, to begin a six-month teaching assignment at the Escuela "Hernando Tquez" (the local primary school). Based both on his own observations and on the assessments offered by various
former students, ...

The purpose of this research paper is to try to clarify and evaluate the major issues
and arguments in the debate on Import Substitution Industrialization Strategy
(ISI) between the neoclassical economists and the development economists.
In particular, it will focus on some basic underlying models employed by
the two ...

School psychologists have an ethical obligation to be advocates for students. However, the ethical principles of the National Association of School Psychologists (NASP) do not define what it means for school psychologists to be advocates for students, except through the inferences that may be drawn from what school ...